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What you want is cheap sturdy door and make it to a counter for computer and stuff. Unless you really want to see the wood , why not use formica to cover it ? It will be flat , can stand water and oil , nice smooth , easily cleaned. Back home wood covered in formica is easy to get in every DIY store , but not so here in Thailand. It is possible to find the formica but you'll have to glue it yourself . Not that easy but a lot less work and toxic fumes than varnish , PU or paint.

But can a snifferdog smell pills tat are still in their blister package ? I tend to bring pills , so thanks for the warning not to go through dubai.

What about pills in the checked in luggage ? They don't check that again during a layover in Dubai or elsewhere. It's all in those airplane containers that go from one plane to the other. Just carry on bags will be checked again.

Yes I've been looking at kitchens too , but in nakhon nowhere , choice is limited. Local Homepro has some for the stone/tile type and it looks reasonable. Just one kitchen western style , with a westerner price of around 430k ... PVC cupboard are ugly and look cheap. The 2 doors from Global house will probably be it for me. @1990 , still expensive for what it is.

Closest " Chiang mai or Phitsanulok. May go see there next month , but far to transport a heavy toilet. Bog standard are the ugly ones that are not great to clean but simple enough to get repared when bad water make them leak.

I don't see where they are located on their site. Never heard of them before. In my neck of the woods it's only GH & HP and some smaller companies with limited choice.

^ Good link but you can't buy a toilet online , or rather choose one without seeing for real. This cute one at GH , not even expensive , but with narrow opening.

For the one that suggested sitting on it . Now I don't care what people think of me , but sitting on toilets at global house or homepro , is bit too much ! They are all pretty much the same height . A higher waterline gives more splashback. And you can't test the flush , none are connected ofcourse. I haven't been in another hotel since 2012 , so I can't compare. And going like in big c or makro , I never sit down . It's just that the nicest looking toilets all seem to have that narrows opening at the bottom. Obviously I want a one piece with conceiled trapway with a soft close lit. They are beautiful and easier to clean. I don't understand how it is fixed to the floor , or how the drain pipe is connected , without leaking.

I'm not joking here with this subject. Going to Global house or HomePro , there must be 50 toilets or more to choose from. Of the nicer looking (and more expensive ) ones , many of them have smaller bowls . What really stuns me is that the bottom part is very narrow , like 8 cm or so and then a hole of maybe 5-6 cm to go down the drain. So different from the toilet I have now , where it is much wider , especially the shute to go to the drain. If you have a big , harder "load" , there is no way it is going to get flushed away. Same for to much TP. With a small bowl there is not much space to use the bun gun without making a mess. So Thais have much smaller " loads" than us ? How to choose the best toilet . I mean you think to get a nice one installed and it doesn't flush well , a quick and easy replace is not posible and the connection with the drain pipe is not flexible and probably differs from toilet to toilet. I can't find on a DDG search good pictures , to show exactly how those toilet look like .

Is it true that the compressor of an inverter AC never shuts down ? So you put on the AC like at 10 am , and it runs all day , untill you shut it down . Ok maybe at the lowest like 300-400 W , but all the time. Do they also work as a fan (without AC) , like regular models ? (side question : does it mean that inverter fridges also never shut down > so it keeps running 24 hours a day ?)

I kind of have the same problem . Every time I go to europe , my legs swell up. When I get back to thailand , it's back to normal . I don't exercise here , it's too hot.

What do you mean : sleepy ? Lazy ? So tv's these days have their own USB input and player ? No need for apps like MPC-BE , KMP or Potplayer , or are they build-in .

I read here that some of you take a USB drive to the store to test the tv ? Do they just let you stick a USB drive in the tv ? Just regular mp4/mkv video files (264-265) ? I have not watched live tv for 15 years , I do not have a tv , but thinking of buying one to watch movies/series from the computer , so just using it as a big monitor. Does this mean I do not need to connect the computer (via HDMI , DP , USB3) , but just put the files on a USB drive and the tv has a player that plays these files ? What about overscan when used as a monitor ? When you buy one of these cheaper ones (10k-20k or discounted) at bigc, homepro, global house , makro or dedicated appliance store, they give you the showroom model ? Those big ones like 55 - 75 inch are on a stand . How stable are they when a cat leans on the front or back ? I doubt those cheaper ones have gorilla glass , so can cleaning the screen , or cat claws damage the screen ?

Small province , not much choice . The company that made those 4m ones said that I will not find longer ones. So did another builder that finished a house a little further. That was only a ground floor too and no concrete ceiling. " but just because it will never be yours should only be one factor. How valuable is your comfort? " Yes I value my comfort , but lives can change on a dime. What is the saying here ? Don't spend more than you're willing to loose ? I wouldn't call double and triple glazing in the west cheap !

How much a month is ToT , only internet ?

Yeah , good video , thanks. I don't need convincing , I know about double glazing , but most Thais don't. But like I said above , it will never be my property , so I cannot spend too much .

When I wrote in first post : I 'm getting an upgrade as in a new build room , it is not with my choice of builders . It is adapting the bungalows/rooms like they built several more to what I want better , and paying to do so , but I don't own it. So I'm limited . I did get through to get a double wall (second = qcon) at the south & west side. But I'm glad to have posted here , because I now see the risks in pushing a concrete ceiling when it might not be safe . Yes I've seen builders make floors with reinforced concrete , but that is not going to fly here. The costs will be too high , even if they agree to it. I will never own it , and the location is not good enough to work out some ground rental deal, and really make it my little house.

These are semi professional builders . The question is , do I trust them with a concrete ceiling over me or my car ? And do I trust these locally made concrete plates. But I haven't heard of floors of shop or townhouses falling down. I'll email those window companies tomorrow , I live in Phrae , so even Chiang mai is pretty far.

Hey guys I 'm getting an upgrade as in a new build room. But the thais still don't get insulation. Has to be cheap , but I'm paying too and I want a concrete ceiling. They are not too happy or eager with that. Now the room is 6 x 4,5 meter and the only concrete ceiling I can find is the standard Thai 4 meter. Is it true that there aren't longer ones ? Yes shophouses or townhouses all are 4 meter wide , but there are wider buildings without support . Why I really want concrete ceiling like having a second floor ? For sound (especially low frequencies ) and I want to stop the heat coming through , because the heat is not stopped by their angled roof (roof tiles of those colored roof plates) and a thin ceiling plate/tiles like thin gyroc. Second thing : Windows (and sliding glass doors) !! Is there no double glazing in Thailand , except for some expensive companies in the Pattaya/Bangkok area ? Here up north , Global house and Home pro have 4 or 5 different makes or windows , Windows Asia seems the biggest , non have double glazing. Some have PVC or/and Aluminium. It gets worse , they all have a green filter , some more than others . It gives the light coming in a greenish shine , I absolutely don't like. I want clear white light. You can't even replace the glass ! If you break it , the whole windows needs to be replaced ? That is what they told me. Well they are cheap . Like a 2 sliding window with mosquito net about 1,5 x1,5 meters is only 2500-3500 baht. Or 2 sliding doors with lock only 7000 B . But green light and no double glazing for sound and heat ? Back in my country , living in a street with lots of traffic , double glazing did absolute wonders. Now again , I'm not far from a big road and potentionaly loud people .

That is the other side of the coin of course. The 800k as health insurance. If I had paid for that insurance , all the money would have been gone , but the 800k is still there.

Yes but if you don't have the required 65k a month , you have to do the combination methode at the yearly extention. A bigger pain. + monthly paying the banks for the transfer , no thanks.

At these rates , the 800k in the bank is like a hidden tax to stay in the country.

Yes the hovering the mouse pointer over a link was the best, especially looking for that Thai girl named Phorn. It will be missed .

Flight SK973 will take off from Copenhagen at 11.30pm local time and arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok (BKK) the next day at 5.05pm local time. Does that count as an overnight flight ? Arriving in BKK at 5 pm , must be the worst.

I used to watch his late night show 4 times a week , until the debacle with Jay Leno where he made a fool of himself . His TBS shows got worse and worse , always the same. Late night stopped after Leno and maybe Ferguson. Never heard of Conan Without Borders. It did not show up in torrent lists , but now that I looked for it , it's there ... still seeded. Of course I would watch it shot in Thailand.